MINIMAL VACATION, CANDY TREES

That four day break was something else! Add on a three day work week and everything is peachy keen! Sort of, there could be some bad news on the work front coming down tomorrow from The Man up at corporate (I imagine Bill Lumberg from Officespace), but those are problems for higher pay grades, until then it's business as usual.

I have a class with two 6 year old (maybe 5) boys who are best friends named Eddison and Daniel (Eddy wants to be an inventor). We have been studying this same simple book that only talks about six parts of a tree and they have memorized it so to mix things up I went out and did some candy shopping: 

Above are Eddy and Daniel working on the tree which consists of a Kit-Kat for the trunk, broken up wheat sticks for the roots, chocolate and cracker sticks for the branches, and these sour taffy-candies (they had a green package, but turned out to be yellow (upon closer inspection it was pineapple flavor....so it figures)) ripped up to make leaves. Also, Mom, I asked the parents first if it was okay to feed them all that candy -- they were cool with it.

Probably the only thing of note that I did over the break was going to Lake Park with some friends for a dinner-time picnic and kicking of the soccer ball / monkey in the middle session.

The first picture is facing away from the lake park at about 6, it was pretty warm out so it was not nearly as dreary as it looks there. At the bottom is an hour later on the field at which we were sitting, and in the distance you can see a screen where they were showing a free movie - a Korean film called Sunny about some high school friends or something. It was showing at an amphitheater overlooking the lake which I thought was pretty cool. Anyway a couple hours and a half dozen mosquito bites we retired for the night.  I'll keep everyone posted on the news from work, take care all.